Swissy Could you tell me more about Amaranth? What is it about, and did anything inspire the characters or story?
What is your muse for writing, typically? Do you have a writing playlist/what is it?
For drawing, I have to put on something that I won't have to think about (or have to think about changing), like all of a band's albums if they're the kind I've heard hundreds of times and won't focus on the lyrics (like Nada Surf, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Spoon, The Walkmen, French Kicks, We Are Scientists, Grandaddy, etc.), or I'll put on some daily/weekly Spotify playlist that's similarly in that pleasant-but-non-distracting tone. When I'm working on a big piece, though, sometimes I need to listen to the same song (or 3-5 songs) on loop until I finish it! Whichever song or songs I'm into that day: my brain sometimes just needs to keep hearing that to focus until I finish the piece.
For writing, I usually have to do it in silence, or I'll get distracted!
Edit: Forgot about the muse question. I'm not sure I'm understanding it right, but I can talk about inspiration if that's what you mean! For the little lits that I post on TH, I think about a character or character interaction that I want to explore or flesh out, or a scenario that I want to write about (especially if something I'm seeing/doing IRL makes me wonder how my characters would act in that scenario). For both those and my comic, it's real life overall that inspires me: places and people I want to pay tribute to.
If one (1) of your characters could get internationally famous, like everyone just knows your character and makes fanart and headcanons about them on social media and all that jazz, which character would you want it to be?
Ooh, this is a really interesting question. I think it's already Izzy? Like, he's not internationally famous and doesn't get fanart or headcanons, but he always gets a lot of attention and people often say he's my most "iconic" character, so if any of them became famous in that way I feel like it would probably be him. (I think CHIEF's another larger-than-life character who would be fun that way!)
Thanks for the questions!